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FROM: "Wilberton, Ann" <wilann@dunwoody.tec.mn.us>
REC'D: 1/29/01, 12:03 PM

Hello all!

I have a request from an acquaintence of mine
I left the public library world a few
years ago and work at a community college so I feel a bit out
of the fiction loop. So, I need your help.

My friend has been reading quite a few of the Oprah books and
now she is looking for smart, literary books but that have sex scenes.
She doesn't like books that fit the Romance genre and enjoys the
the quality of the Oprah book list but wants to read some books that
are "good stories but have some sex in them...none of these books have
sex!" that's a direct quote from her. I also get the impression that she
wants consensual sex scenes and maybe books that are not quite as
dark as some of the Oprah list books. I'm not sure if she want's a love
story
involved or just sex. I thought of Layover by lisa zeidner; but, im
not exactly sure if that's what she's after because that book isn't exactly
light.

I thought maybe Elinor Lipman, Judith Freeman, Jonis Agee...but then
i can't even remember if those books have sex scenes.

I searched the fiction-L archives to no avail.

Thanks for your help and I will post a list when all the suggestions are in.


Ann Wilberton
Library and A/V Services Manager
Dunwoody Institute
Minneapolis, MN

FROM: Anne Kabel <kabelann@metronet.lib.mi.us>
REC'D: 1/29/01, 12:24 PM

try Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver --

Anne Kabel
Adult Reading Librarian
Baldwin Public Library
300 W. Merrill
P.O. Box 3002
Birmingham MI 48012-3002
248- 647-1700

FROM: Robin Leigh <leighr@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
REC'D: 1/29/01, 12:35 PM

"They Whisper" by Robert Olen Butler deals with a man's attempt to
understand women and his attraction for them. It is full of sex and
sensual scenes, some scenes involve a character who was abused as a child
sorting out her memories, but the range of sexuality is
broad and it ends with a "healthy" immersion in his new, more rational
love partner. This is a pre-AIDS story of Vietnam and post-Vietnam era.

****************************************************************************
Robin Leigh
Brandon Regional Library
Tampa-Hillsborough County Public Library System
****************************************************************************

On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Wilberton, Ann wrote:

> Hello all!
>
> I have a request from an acquaintence of mine
> I left the public library world a few
> years ago and work at a community college so I feel a bit out
> of the fiction loop. So, I need your help.
>
> My friend has been reading quite a few of the Oprah books and
> now she is looking for smart, literary books but that have sex scenes.
> She doesn't like books that fit the Romance genre and enjoys the
> the quality of the Oprah book list but wants to read some books that
> are "good stories but have some sex in them...none of these books have
> sex!" that's a direct quote from her. I also get the impression that she
> wants consensual sex scenes and maybe books that are not quite as
> dark as some of the Oprah list books. I'm not sure if she want's a love
> story
> involved or just sex. I thought of Layover by lisa zeidner; but, im
> not exactly sure if that's what she's after because that book isn't exactly
> light.
>
> I thought maybe Elinor Lipman, Judith Freeman, Jonis Agee...but then
> i can't even remember if those books have sex scenes.
>
> I searched the fiction-L archives to no avail.
>
> Thanks for your help and I will post a list when all the suggestions are in.
>
>
> Ann Wilberton
> Library and A/V Services Manager
> Dunwoody Institute
> Minneapolis, MN
>
> ......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html
>

FROM: Annette Weiss <weissann@metronet.lib.mi.us>
REC'D: 1/29/01, 12:46 PM

I don't know what her definition Of "literary" is, but I suggest John
Irving's A Widow for One Year and Josephine Hart's Damage. I thought both
were good reading AND interesting sex.
Nicholson Baker's Vox is a bit kinkier, about phone sex.

Annette
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So let me get this straight: You want information about why reference
librarians always answer a question with another question, right?

Annette Weiss Phone: (248) 553-0300
Adult Services Librarian Fax: (248) 553-3228
E-Mail: weissann@metronet.lib.mi.us
Farmington Community Library
32737 W. 12 Mile Rd.
Farmington Hills, MI 48334
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FROM: Dean706@aol.com
REC'D: 1/29/01, 12:57 PM

The sexiest literary novel i've read in years is Swimming Sweet Arrow, by
Maureen Gibbon. Quite remarkable.

Dean Niles
Tudor Rose Book Shop

FROM: Candace_Dotson@freenet.richland.oh.us (Candace Dotson)
REC'D: 1/29/01, 1:28 PM

How about The Outlander by Diana Gabaldon.

FROM: Charlie Myers <myersc@laurel.humboldt.edu>
REC'D: 1/29/01, 1:40 PM

Again, I'm not sure what qualifies as "literary," but Topping from Below by
Laura Reese combines sex with a decent mystery. The sex, however, has a
high S/M quotient.

Charlie Myers

FROM: Kaite Mediatore <mediatok@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 1/29/01, 2:11 PM

Ann,
How about Nora Roberts?

Kaite

--- "Wilberton, Ann" <wilann@dunwoody.tec.mn.us> wrote:
> Hello all!
>
> I have a request from an acquaintence of mine
> I left the public library world a few
> years ago and work at a community college so I feel a bit
> out
> of the fiction loop. So, I need your help.
>
> My friend has been reading quite a few of the Oprah books
> and
> now she is looking for smart, literary books but that
> have sex scenes.
> She doesn't like books that fit the Romance genre and
> enjoys the
> the quality of the Oprah book list but wants to read some
> books that
> are "good stories but have some sex in them...none of
> these books have
> sex!" that's a direct quote from her. I also get the
> impression that she
> wants consensual sex scenes and maybe books that are not
> quite as
> dark as some of the Oprah list books. I'm not sure if
> she want's a love
> story
> involved or just sex. I thought of Layover by lisa
> zeidner; but, im
> not exactly sure if that's what she's after because that
> book isn't exactly
> light.
>
> I thought maybe Elinor Lipman, Judith Freeman, Jonis
> Agee...but then
> i can't even remember if those books have sex scenes.
>
> I searched the fiction-L archives to no avail.
>
> Thanks for your help and I will post a list when all the
> suggestions are in.
>
>
> Ann Wilberton
> Library and A/V Services Manager
> Dunwoody Institute
> Minneapolis, MN
>
>
......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> Everything Fiction_L:
http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html


=====
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KCKPL Main Branch
625 Minnesota Ave.
Kansas City, KS 66101
913.279.2212 fx 913.279.2032
cmedia@kckpl.lib.ks.us

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FROM: Bsbgc@aol.com
REC'D: 1/29/01, 4:27 PM

In a message dated 1/29/2001 3:09:14 PM Eastern Standard Time,
mediatok@yahoo.com writes:

<<
Ann,
How about Nora Roberts?

Kaite

--- "Wilberton, Ann" <wilann@dunwoody.tec.mn.us> wrote:
> Hello all!
>
> I have a request from an acquaintence of mine
> I left the public library world a few
> years ago and work at a community college so I feel a bit
> out
> of the fiction loop. So, I need your help.
>
> My friend has been reading quite a few of the Oprah books
> and
> now she is looking for smart, literary books but that
> have sex scenes.
> She doesn't like books that fit the Romance genre and
> enjoys the
> the quality of the Oprah book list but wants to read some
> books that
> are "good stories but have some sex in them...none of
> these books have
> sex!" that's a direct quote from her. I also get the
> impression that she
> wants consensual sex scenes and maybe books that are not
> quite as
> dark as some of the Oprah list books. I'm not sure if
> she want's a love
> story
> involved or just sex. I thought of Layover by lisa
> zeidner; but, im
> not exactly sure if that's what she's after because that
> book isn't exactly
> light.
>
> I thought maybe Elinor Lipman, Judith Freeman, Jonis
> Agee...but then
> i can't even remember if those books have sex scenes.
>
> I searched the fiction-L archives to no avail.
>
> Thanks for your help and I will post a list when all the
> suggestions are in.
>
>
> Ann Wilberton
> Library and A/V Services Manager
> Dunwoody Institute
> Minneapolis, MN
> >>

I thought the original query ruled out the romance genre. (See below)
Because Nora Roberts (and Sandra Brown, and Linda Howard, and Elizabeth
Lowell) among many others, have wonderful love scenes - but all take place
within the framerwork of the romance genre.

And then of course there's the historical romance -

Binnie Syril Braunstein
romance novelist/former librarian.

FROM: "ROBIN BEERBOWER" <RBEERBOWER@mail.open.org>
REC'D: 1/30/01, 11:11 AM

I deleted the original message by mistake and think it requested short novels, but I will submit this anyway. A colleague just read THE FEAST OF LOVE by Charles Baxter and said it was an excellent book but warned "there is *a lot* of sex in it!", so maybe that would fit the bill. :-)


Robin Beerbower
Outreach Services
Salem (OR) Public Library
PO Box 14810, Salem, OR 97309
rbeerbower@open.org
503-588-6089

FROM: Sheila Bowling <bowlings@metronet.lib.mi.us>
REC'D: 1/30/01, 1:32 PM

Ann,

Jack Driscoll's Lucky Man, Lucky woman is a contemporary love story about
a married couple.

Sheila Bowling
Rochester Hills Public Library

FROM: "Valerie Maine" <vmaine@nslsilus.org>
REC'D: 2/5/01, 12:09 PM

How about VOX by Nicholas Baker.

Valerie Maine
Vernon Area Public Library
Lincolnshire, IL 60069

FROM: Patience Beer <beerpati@metronet.lib.mi.us>
REC'D: 2/8/01, 2:54 PM

Did someone already suggest THE FEAST OF LOVE by Charles Baxter? A series of
characters tell the author their love stories, many have sex scenes, everything
I've read so far is consensual (I'm halfway through the book).

"Wilberton, Ann" wrote:

> Hello all!
>
> I have a request from an acquaintence of mine
> I left the public library world a few
> years ago and work at a community college so I feel a bit out
> of the fiction loop. So, I need your help.
>
> My friend has been reading quite a few of the Oprah books and
> now she is looking for smart, literary books but that have sex scenes.
> She doesn't like books that fit the Romance genre and enjoys the
> the quality of the Oprah book list but wants to read some books that
> are "good stories but have some sex in them...none of these books have
> sex!" that's a direct quote from her. I also get the impression that she
> wants consensual sex scenes and maybe books that are not quite as
> dark as some of the Oprah list books. I'm not sure if she want's a love
> story
> involved or just sex. I thought of Layover by lisa zeidner; but, im
> not exactly sure if that's what she's after because that book isn't exactly
> light.
>
> I thought maybe Elinor Lipman, Judith Freeman, Jonis Agee...but then
> i can't even remember if those books have sex scenes.
>
> I searched the fiction-L archives to no avail.
>
> Thanks for your help and I will post a list when all the suggestions are in.
>
> Ann Wilberton
> Library and A/V Services Manager
> Dunwoody Institute
> Minneapolis, MN
>
> ......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html

FROM: "Gisele Tremblay" <gisele_tremblay@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 2/10/01, 1:16 AM

Subject: Re: literary sex
From: "Patience Beer" <beerpati@metronet.lib.mi.us>
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 15:46:34 -0500

Did someone already suggest THE FEAST OF LOVE by Charles Baxter? A series
of
characters tell the author their love stories, many have sex scenes,
everything
I've read so far is consensual (I'm halfway through the book).

"Wilberton, Ann" wrote:

>Hello all!
>
>I have a request from an acquaintence of mine
>I left the public library world a few
>years ago and work at a community college so I feel a bit out
>of the fiction loop. So, I need your help.
>
>My friend has been reading quite a few of the Oprah books and
>now she is looking for smart, literary books but that have sex scenes.
>She doesn't like books that fit the Romance genre and enjoys the
>the quality of the Oprah book list but wants to read some books that
>are "good stories but have some sex in them...none of these books have
>sex!" that's a direct quote from her. I also get the impression that she
>wants consensual sex scenes and maybe books that are not quite as
>dark as some of the Oprah list books. I'm not sure if she want's a love
>story
>involved or just sex. I thought of Layover by lisa zeidner; but, im
>not exactly sure if that's what she's after because that book isn't exactly
>light.
>
>I thought maybe Elinor Lipman, Judith Freeman, Jonis Agee...but then
>i can't even remember if those books have sex scenes.
>
>I searched the fiction-L archives to no avail.
>
>Thanks for your help and I will post a list when all the suggestions are
>in.
>
>Ann Wilberton
>Library and A/V Services Manager
>Dunwoody Institute
>Minneapolis, MN
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Hi, if you don't know already the "Book Forager" web site, I think you could
like to give it a try:
http://www.branching-out.net/forager/

Among different caracteristics bars on the panel (Happy/Sad,
Expected/Unpredictable, Optimistic/Bleak...), I moved the "sex bar" (No
Sex/Sex) to the right and I got these titles :

Crossing the border : tales of erotic ambiguity, by Lisa Tuttle
Invisible life, by E.Lynn Harris
Footsucker, by Geoff Nicholson
Catching shellfish between the tides, by Rosalyn Chissick
The last bus : Poems, by Paul Summers
The long falling, by Keith Ridgway
Eating Cake, by Stella Duffy
Dear dead person, by Benjamin Weissman
The bird of night, by Susan Hill

And for each title, you get "More like this...", "Where next" and "Reader
comment". You can require books with up to four different caracteristics.
_________________________________________________________________________
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FROM: "Maureen OConnor" <moconnor@bramlib.on.ca>
REC'D: 4/11/01, 3:05 PM

I'm REALLY behind in my Fiction_L mail, and so am just getting to this.

If you're still interested, Ann, you can go to BookBrowser and just type
in "sex" in the Search box. You'll then get a lot of titles to choose
from. I reviewed one in particular, Lip Service, that I thought was
quite well written, and it certainly had sex in it; I gave the book a
very positive review.

Maureen

__________________________

Maureen O'Connor
Brampton Public Library
moconnor@bramlib.on.ca

All opinions expressed above are mine alone.

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